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EFT for Golfers by Larry Phillips

EFTers will already know that EFT can improve performance in all kinds of sports including Golf.
How well does this specialist ebook shape up as a standalone introduction to EFT and as a guide to using EFT for Golf performance?

I'm not a golfer - but my mother is. After 15 years of staying solidly "a beginner" and never breaking her handicap, I did some EFT with her - probably less than an hour in total on a range of issues. A couple of weeks after this work she broke her handicap by 2 points and was invited to play a match for the 3rd team at her club. Her team won the match and my mother won a trophy and some prizes.

Having seen at first hand how just a little EFT can help a seriously struggling golfer (sorry Mum) turn their game around I was curious to look at this book by Larry Phillips. This review isn't trying to assess "whether EFT can improve your game". There's no doubt that it can - I was already aware of many case histories on Gary Craig's site with evidence of that. Instead I'll be looking at the quality of this book from a practitioner point of view - does it provide an easy to use but thorough guide for the beginner? Does it take the golfing reader through the likely issues and blocks they might work on to improve their game?

The introductory tutorial is adequate but not as clear as it might have been. Partly because there are 2 or 3 different variations of tapping sequence given in the first 20 pages, which could well be confusing to the complete beginner. And partly because the accompanying diagrams don't seem to exactly match the text e.g. points marked which aren't talked about in the text at all. The author's idea of a "reminder phrase" while tapping is also non-standard - involving repeating the entire setup statement on each point. Luckily EFT is such a forgiving technique that even the confused beginner is going to get some effective tapping done following these instructions.

The introductory chapter takes far too much for granted about the the user's level of knowledge about EFT. For example, the instruction to "focus on positive reframing of your expectations" while tapping isn't going to mean much to someone who hasn't either seen Gary Craig's training DVDs or taken a course in NLP. The book does define these things later on - which gives a sense of disorder. Frustratingly, at the end of the introductory chapter the author says: "If you find that you achieve only minimal to moderate success, further study may be in order." but doesn't say where or how. It wouldn't have been too hard for a practitioner to suggest other things to try, or other sources of information. I feel this line sums up the incompleteness of this as an EFT tutorial.

The remaining sections of the book (full contents listing here) are simply a cut and paste of golf-related case histories and articles about performance enhancement written by other practitioners. Many of these articles are excellent and give practical information and inspiration - but they are not original and you can get them free on Gary Craig's website www.emofree.com. (I didn't check every single article, but all the ones I checked I was able to find).

Overall, I feel that someone who wants to use EFT to improve their golf will get better and cheaper advice by downloading Gary's EFT manual (or someone else's free guide of which there are many on the web) for the basic EFT protocol and then reading the cases histories on www.emofree.com for ideas on how to apply it. To me, the ONLY reason you might want to pay $24.95 for this book is if you can't be bothered to go and search through www.emofree.com for the free information there.

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Overall rating: Adequate but confusing tutorial, non-original content.

Where to buy: Ebook $24.95 www.nolimiteftbooks.com